[pct-l] Music on the Trail and Rain Gear

[Nathan A]

Shroomer, good point on the durability I did not assume there would be all
that much bushwhacking based on the pictures I have seen of the trail and
my experience hiking around in Arizona. I do have a proper rain jacket just
trying to safely shave some weight while I get my trail legs and for the
extra water. I am also considering a poncho and I guess regardless pack
just a little extra duct tape..

Daniel,
I do not have interest in cell phone service (3G) on the trail, unless it
is an emergency, I would do all of my downloading in towns on WiFi.

Thanks,
Nathan


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Daniel Zellman <danielzellman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, that's a bit of a relief, I must say!
>
> Call me a Luddite, but I find it disturbing to think there WOULD be cell
> service for all but a few hundred miles of trail.
>
> But I guess it's probably little more than a vain hope to think it might
> be possible to escape the tyranny of cell phones even on the PCT in this
> day and age [he writes from his cell phone ... ah, the irony, the irony....]
>
> -dz
>
> On Monday, February 18, 2013, Scott Williams wrote:
>
>> We didn't have cel service for days at a time all the way to Canada.  You
>> will pick it up in most towns and hit and miss on trail but the dead zone
>> wasn't just the first 300 miles, at least not for my Verizon cel.
>>
>> As for rain gear, I used mine more in the lower deserts than in the San
>> Jacintos and that was just due to the vagaries of the weather in 2010.  We
>> got snowed on 3 times in the desert but never in the desert mountains.
>> What that meant was that we were wearing our rain jackets on overgrown
>> chaparral trails.  I started out with a Dry Ducks jacket which is heavier
>> than your one dollar plastic, but still pretty weak stuff, and the brush
>> tore it to shreads in a day or two of use.  After 2 weeks on trail I went
>> to KO and bought a real rain jacket that lasted me to Canada.  I used a
>> light weight rain jacket that also doubles for the wind jacket plus a
>> mylar
>> umbrella on the rest of the PCT in 2010 and on the CDT in 2012.
>>
>> Some of the coldest and most inclement weather of the whole PCT hike was
>> in
>> the deserts, and I don't mean the desert mountains.   If you plan on
>> heavier rain gear for the Sierra, I'd start with it right off as the trail
>> in the Sierra is much more open and brush free than some of the desert
>> trails.  Try and push your way through chamise or manzanita overgrown
>> trail
>> while it's snowing or raining and you may not be wearing plastic for too
>> long.
>>
>> Shroomer
>>  On Feb 18, 2013 8:16 AM, "Nathan A" <nathan4517 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello Everyone,
>> > My wife and I are going to bring our 16GB Iphones to use for camera,
>> music
>> > player, Audiobook player ect.
>> >
>> > Obviously having enough space for everything is going to become an issue
>> > quickly  and I just wanted to share some ideas we have and any hear if
>> > anyone has been successful with this approach.
>> >
>> > I went a little crazy with signing up for cloud storage through
>> Dropbox(2GB
>> > Free), Google Drive (5GB Free), and Box(Got a promo with 50GB Free).
>> >
>> > We will be using Dropbox to upload all of our photos then family back
>> home
>> > will pull them off the drive weekly for us and burn them to a CD.  We
>> can
>> > then delete all of the photos from our phone for the next section of
>> trail.
>> >
>> > I will upload extra copies of Halfmiles Maps, Cell Reception Reports,
>> > Resupply Spreadsheet, ect as backups to Google Docks as needed.
>> >
>> > Finally, I will upload all of my music and audio books to Box and as I
>> find
>> > WiFi in towns I will just download whatever audio books or music I am
>> > interested in.  I have not bought the app yet but they do sell a $2
>> audio
>> > player that I still need to play with.
>> >
>> > Looking over the WiFi report it seems like there is easily accessible
>> WiFi
>> > all over the trail other than perhaps the 1st 300 miles.
>> >
>> > Has anyone else had experience with this?
>> >
>> > Completely different question: I am thinking of bringing a wind jacket,
>> > Mylar umbrella, and just a cheep $1 plastic emergency poncho as my rain
>> > gear until Kennedy Meadows. Obviously my biggest concern is the San
>> > Jacinto's. Does this seem sufficient rain coverage for the amount of
>> rain
>> > typically seen on this section of trail?
>> >
>> > Thanks Everyone and see you in a few months!
>> > Nathan
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